Elks Peak

The Elks Order has a picturesque plot in Mountain View Cemetery on a south-side hilltop. This elk-topped crypt is surrounded with rugged boulders of serpentinite, probably of local origin. The stone is well chosen, being inhospitable to plants and moss, and adds a bit of miniature grandeur.

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Just this morning I found another example of this stone, used in a similar decorative way, on Pill Hill at the intersection of Summit Street and Hawthorne Avenue. There the stones are slapped together with a little mortar, and the public’s attention is causing it some attrition. Still, at a distance it lands a cooling aspect to the shady spot it occupies, under a spreading oak tree. It strongly resembles the ragged blueschist/serpentinite of the Crestmont body.

I’m wondering if you might be able to point me to any resources that would describe what flora and fauna would have been living on the Mountain View slope before the bluegrass and dead people were planted there.